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Madam vs Teacher - What's the difference?

madam | teacher |

As nouns the difference between madam and teacher

is that madam is A polite form of address for a woman or lady.teacher is a person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.

madam

English

Noun

(wikipedia madam) (en-noun)
  • ''Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam ”.
    ''Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.
  • The mistress of a household.
  • (colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.
  • ''Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam .
  • (slang) A woman who runs a brothel.
  • After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam .

    Synonyms

    * dame * woman * lady * matron * mistress

    See also

    * pimp

    teacher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • The index finger; the forefinger.
  • (Mormonism) The second highest office in the , held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
  • Synonyms

    * (index finger) arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger